Smallpox and bioterrorism

The Washington Times ^ | July 8, 2003 | Dr. William Bicknell and Kenneth Bloem

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The Iraq war is over, no WMD have yet been found and the administration's smallpox plan appears to be running out of steam. Instead of being well on the way to vaccinating up to 10 million civilian health, emergency and public safety workers as called for by President Bush, we are stalled at 37,608. Our message to the nation's health authorities: This is not the time to go wobbly on biodefense.

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I absolutely agree with the authors. People are being too complacent about the threat of bioterroris, and by the time it happens it's too late.

I agree with the authors about the fact that the risks of the smallpox vaccine are overhyped, and the threat of smallpox is minimized. For many years it was mandatory, so what's the big deal now, and the threat is real. The slow reaction to the monkeypox showed that waiting for an outbreak is a very bad idea, thousands may die.

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